Windows 7 Ultimate Sneak Peek

With Sidebar gone, gadgets can be placed directly in the desktop. Users can create and share custom Themes. Also Aero glass settings can be customized.

Two windows can be viewed side-by-side by dragging each window to the far left or far right of the deksop. Dragging a window to the top auto-maximizes it.

Devices are now represented by photo icons.

The enduring Paint application now has the ribbon interface of Office 2007.

Every program in Windows 7 has a jump list. It's a quick way to access files and recently visited Web sites.

Libraries can be used to store and search across a variety of data.

Users can quickly connect to networks from the System Tray.

Opened programs reside on the Taskbar as graphic thumbnails.

Windows 7 machines can be managed via Homegroups, designed for home networking. With Homegroups one PC can stream media to another PC or to a media player.

A new way to manage devices and drivers. Possibilities are endless for vendors to create their own device stage in XML format.